is the
smooth talking pig who always has an answer when the other animals are rightly disturbed about
something that has happened:
The others said of Squealer
that he could turn black into white.
For example, when
the pigs commandeer the milk and windfall apples for themselves, the other animals
"murmur" and are upset. Squealer, however, explains that the pigs don't really like
milk and apples but are taking them for the welfare of everyone: if the pigs are not well fed
and healthy, they can't use their brains and then Jones will come back. Squealer says:
surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come
back?
Squealer twists all the selfish and evil actions of
the pigs into somehow being for the good of the larger community. He confuses the other animals
with lies that somehow sound plausible for the moment. He is willing to say anything or tell any
lie in order for the pigs to keep their grip on power. All of this is manipulative behavior: it
bends the other animals to the pigs' wills withoutcaring at all for the other animals
themselves. It is typical of the kind of propaganda used in totalitarian regimes in places such
as Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
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